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What's happening at UNEP-WCMC

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a new project that will search for and bring together a wealth of information on connectivity conservation that UNEP will use to inform the development of its global connectivity conservation strategy.

A call for conservation scientists, remote sensing specialists, and space agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and European Space Agency (ESA), to collaborate on building global observing systems for biodiversity, has been co-authored by UNEP-WCMC and published today (22 July 2015) in Nature Communications.

An interactive online infographic created by National Geographic now allows you to explore which protected animal species are traded internationally and the reasons for their trade. Using data from the CITES Trade Database, which is managed by UNEP-WCMC on behalf of the CITES Secretariat, the infographic also reveals which countries are the biggest exporters and importers of CITES-listed animals.

The World Heritage Committee is meeting in Bonn, Germany, from 28 June to 8 July to examine the proposals to add 37 properties to the World Heritage List. As part of the evaluation process, UNEP-WCMC completed a comparative analysis of the proposed sites nominated under biodiversity criteria (ix and x), which helped inform the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) recommendations to the World Heritage Committee.

A new species of frog identified in Africa’s Eastern Arc Mountains has been named after UNEP-WCMC’s Head of Science, Professor Neil Burgess. Professor Burgess has worked in the region for almost 20 years, describing its unique biodiversity and encouraging its conservation.

An Editorial by Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. As we sit down to lunch or dinner on this World Environment Day, it is important to consider this: one-third of all food produced globally each year – 300 million tonnes – is wasted. This waste costs the global economy a staggering one trillion dollars a year.